If you are a parent of millennial kid, then I can understand your mental situation about parenting your child. Parents undergo variety of emotions such as anxiety, fear, self-doubt while doing parenting especially when you are a parent of millennial kid. Why is it more difficult for the parents of millennials?
The reasons are many. Millennial are the kids who are born in21st century. They have the syndrome of know it all means we know everything thanks to the internet. Everything is easily available and accessible for them whether it is facilities or information. So they take everything for granted, whether the comforts provided to them, opportunities given, and other good things of life. On the contrary, they dishearten very fast, if they couldn’t achieve something. But if you talk about their parents, Parents of these kids belong to the previous generation (different world all together) when nothing was so easy, be it facilities, education, or information. They had to struggle a lot to reach a comfortable position. So today’s parents want to safeguard their children from going through the hardships of life which they had faced. But one thing here is overlooked on the part of the parents that hardships and challenges of life refine the personality of a human being in many ways for e.g.. Hard work, never give up attitude, determination, fighting spirit etc. so many a times it happens that they give up very easily. This sometimes leads to different types of psychological issues in the kids. The value system of these parents was also quite different as compare to this generation. Nuclear family system has again worsen the situation as no elder people are there in your house to impart values of life. Emotional quotient of the kids somewhere face the blow because of all this. As studies have proved that EQ is the strongest tool of a person more than the IQ of a person to excel in the life.
So it is very important to have a balanced parenting of your child especially in this time period. If as a parent you are telling them to do something, probably they mayn’t do or at the worst they might rebel. So indirectly parents should guide them. Since their early childhood, some of the habits should be cultivated in a smooth way.
- The habit of reading books should be imparted since the early childhood. A good book will always work for the child as a mentor, friend, philosopher, and even fill the gap of being in a nuclear family. During the different stages of life cycle, the child would read different genre of books. Books bring understanding about the complexity of human nature, human relationships, values and much more. So tell them-book is your friend.
- As a parent if you could make them learn the feeling of gratitude for every good thing in life. It can be done through small rituals such as thank you prayer to the God while having food. Having every meal with family as a whole, generates the importance of having a family, relations. If visits to the orphanage or interaction with street kids will also realise them to appreciate the god things of life.
